History Main / DownTheRabbitHole

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->"Why, Alice, I'm sending you through the looking-glass!"\\

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* KiddVideo involves a (live action) rock band who is forcibly transported to the "Flip Side" (a 2D animated world) through a jukebox in the garage of one of the members, thanks to the BigBad Master Blaster. Each episode focused mainly on the group trying to get back to their world, but like many shows made at the time (early-mid 1980s), there was no proper resolution to the story.

* In ''Laura and the Silver Wolf'', the heroine can enter Ice-Land through the white wall near her bed. Or any other completely whte wall.

--> '''Morpheus''', ''The Matrix''

* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/ Alice]]'' by Jan Svankmajer is the most [[strike:spiritually faithful]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs deranged and incomprehensible]] adaptation that I've seen, with it's stop-motion animation, and mostly silent script.

* ''UnLunDun'' by [[{{Ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville]]. Notable in that there seem to be many different ways to get to and from there (turning a handle, climbing a bookcase, crossing a bridge), and that due to it being fairly easy as long as you know roughly what to do, problems from one world can cross to the other if the wrong people are involved. Needless to say, in the story, they are.

* UnLunDun by China Mieville. Notable in that there seem to be many different ways to get to and from there (turning a handle, climbing a bookcase, crossing a bridge), and that due to it being fairly easy as long as you know roughly what to do, problems from one world can cross to the other if the wrong people are involved. Needless to say, in the story, they are.

So you've got yourself a little story about a [[StrangeGirl more than ordinary]] [[KidHero young girl]] who's [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor not fully satisfied]] with the [[RealLife status quo]]. Perhaps she yearns for a place where the GrassIsGreener, her parents dote on her every whim, or [[ChangelingFantasy she's a princess]]. She either visits or [[TrappedInAnotherWorld finds herself trapped]] in some sort of AlternateUniverse (potentially a DarkWorld) where [[{{Muppet}} bizarre]] [[PeopleInRubberSuits creatures]] and TheFairFolk are common inhabitants. The heroine will often encounter [[AndYouWereThere various parallels]] between this strange place and her former reality. She may undergo trials through which she [[AnAesop learns a lesson]] about [[ComingOfAgeStory herself or her place in the world]]. There will be enough strange goings on to make you wonder if [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs the creators were on something]], so expect potential NightmareFuel from even the more lighthearted variants. By the time she makes it home, many viewers will [[SchrodingersButterfly wonder]] if it was AllJustADream.

* '{{Contact}}'', when Eleanor Arroway uses the machine build using the aliens instructions.

Also a specific variant of [[TheHerosJourney The Hero's Journey]]. Contrast UpTheRealRabbitHole. Compare with TrappedInAnotherWorld and OrpheanRescue. See AliceAllusion for works which only ''reference'' AliceInWonderland.

Also a specific variant of [[TheHerosJourney The Hero's Journey]]. Contrast UpTheRealRabbitHole. Compare with TrappedInAnotherWorld and OrpheanRescue.

** Includes the drawing element, also found in ''MirrorMask''. The girl [[ReclusiveArtist draws]], and thus [[AGodAmI creates]], the world herself, thus implying that she ''can'' effect the world around her.

* Film/ForbiddenZone parodies this, with the "Rabbit hole" being a giant mouth which you're later defecated into the sixth dimension.

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So you've got yourself a little story about a [[StrangeGirl more than ordinary]] [[KidHero young girl]] who's [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor not fully satisfied]] with the [[RealLife status quo]]. Perhaps she yearns for a place where the GrassIsGreener, her parents dote on her every whim, or [[ChangelingFantasy she's a princess]]. Just GoAskAlice: she's unsatisfied. She either visits or [[TrappedInAnotherWorld finds herself trapped]] in some sort of AlternateUniverse (potentially a DarkWorld) where [[{{Muppet}} bizarre]] [[PeopleInRubberSuits creatures]] and TheFairFolk are common inhabitants. The heroine will often encounter [[AndYouWereThere various parallels]] between this strange place and her former reality. She may undergo trials through which she [[AnAesop learns a lesson]] about [[ComingOfAgeStory herself or her place in the world]]. There will be enough strange goings on to make you wonder if [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs the creators were on something]], so expect potential NightmareFuel from even the more lighthearted variants. By the time she makes it home, many viewers will [[SchrodingersButterfly wonder]] if it was AllJustADream.

* In ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', Christine goes underground with the Phantom. Includes [[MasqueradeBall masquerades]], {{mirror}}s, and [[DramaticUnmask masks]].
** In the original book, naive and childlike Christine literally interprets her descent to the Opera's cellars as transition to a mystical underworld and describes the Phantom in terms reminiscent of TheFairFolk. In the book the Opera's cellars actually have other inhabitants almost as peculiar as the Phantom himself, almost composing a miniature world in themselves, though it's more mundane than it seems to her.

Also a specific variant of [[TheHerosJourney The Hero's Journey]]. Contrast UpTheRealRabbitHole. Compare with TrappedInAnotherWorld.

* In Patrick Senecal's macabre retelling of Alice in Wonderland, Aliss, the subway is used to get to a parallel neighborhood called Daresbury. In a subversion, the subway can freely be used by anyone to travel back and forth between Daresbury and the real world. Except when the subway employees are on strike.

* ''DonnieDarko'' follows a giant rabbit named [[DonnieDarko Frank]] to a tangent universe [[spoiler: that will ultimately lead to the end of the world if not corrected.]]